Student targetting faculty posts on social media

[Dismal]

Linkedin is a professional networking site so it makes sense that some students might want to connect with their profs there. 

On FB I only use first and middle name because it's not a professional forum for me - I mostly keep in touch with relatives and a few friends with just a few friendly colleagues.  I try not to post on FB on public threads as I don't like how that all appears on my feed for all my friends to see.  I have a few friends who have all their posts set to public and I don't know why they do that but I don't "like" or interact them when I see that globe symbol. In fact that is why I removed my last name and made my affiliation private because I had been accidentally engaging with public posts. 

Just this week one of my FB friends posted  on a private company's public thread about how she liked a new product for smelly crotches.  TMI - her 250 friends didn't need to know this.
I do sometimes rant a bit in the newspaper comment section under my own initial and last name on topics related to my field and I spend some time thinking of what to post assuming my identity is public ( but probably few people would notice.)

I sgree with some others above that the best privacy option is to post in forums with limited access or just post less.  Some people don't seem to understand the settings.

[Wahoo Redux]

OP, if your posts are progressive, you have nothing to fear.  If they're conservative, nothing can save you.

Hyperbole and distortion just make the implicit case against one's own dogma.

[mahagonny]

Stop giving them a target.